DIAGNOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diagnose mean? 

• DIAGNOSE (verb)
  The verb DIAGNOSE has 2 senses:

1. determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis

2. subject to a medical analysis

  Familiarity information: DIAGNOSE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIAGNOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they diagnose    ... he / she / it diagnoses   
Past simple: diagnosed   
Past participle: diagnosed   
-ing form: diagnosing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

diagnose; name

Hypernyms (to "diagnose" is one way to...):

analyse; analyze; canvass; examine; study (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diagnose"):

explore (examine minutely)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

diagnosing; diagnosis (identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Subject to a medical analysis

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "diagnose" is one way to...):

analyse; analyze; canvass; examine; study (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diagnose"):

explore (examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

diagnosing; diagnosis (identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon)

 Context examples 

Biologicals may be used to prevent, diagnose, treat or relieve of symptoms of a disease.

(Biological, NCI Dictionary)

Measuring the amount of beta-human chorionic gonadotropin in the blood or urine of cancer patients may help to diagnose cancer and find out how well cancer treatment is working.

(Beta-human chorionic gonadotropin, NCI Dictionary)

Measuring the amount of beta-hCG in the blood or urine of cancer patients may help to diagnose cancer and find out how well cancer treatment is working.

(beta-hCG, NCI Dictionary)

A medical device is any product used to diagnose, cure, or treat a condition, or to prevent disease.

(Medical Device Safety, Food and Drug Administration)

Microarrays are being used to help diagnose diseases, such as cancer, and to develop treatments for them.

(Microarray, NCI Dictionary)

A branch of medicine that develops ways to diagnose and treat disease by understanding the way genes, proteins, and other cellular molecules work.

(Molecular medicine, NCI Dictionary)

The use of molecular tools and techniques, especially gene and protein expression profiles, to diagnose disease.

(Molecular diagnosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A microfluidic device may use body fluids or solutions containing cells or cell parts to diagnose diseases.

(Microfluidic device, NCI Dictionary)

Diagnosing Behcet's can take a long time, because symptoms may come and go, and it may take months or even years to have all of the symptoms.

(Behcet's Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

A standardized rating scale developed by Thomas R. E. Barnes in 1989 to diagnose akathisia associated with use of antipsychotic agents.

(Barnes Akathisia Rating Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)